So to be clear: you didn’t laugh?

Older C compilers would truncate a variable name if it was too long, so VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInSeconds might accidentally collide with VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInMinutes.

Legend says that they used to do it after a single letter with Dennis declaring “26 variables ought to be enough for anyone”.

Red circles are deprecated in favor of teal because of accessibility requirement WIP.DOnotUSE.14.g.2025.v0.

Whoosh

Seriously though, spring configurations are written in XML and you create variables, call functions, and have control flow. Effectively turning XML into a horrible twisted shadow of a programming language.

All in the name of “configurability” through dependency injection.

XML is the second worst programming language ever created by humans

Don’t make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

And here I was thinking that adding timezones for mars was going to be the biggest timezone headache in the next 5 years.

The actual press transcript in case you really don’t trust JNS:

https://press.un.org/en/2024/db240117.doc.hhtm

And the UNRWA statements in the past regarding tunnels under its facilities:

• 2022 statement by UNRWA complaining about tunnels under its facilities
• 2021 statement by UNRWA complaining about tunnels under its facilities
• 2017 statement by UNRWA complaining about tunnels under its facilities

From the article:

She told Cooper that while her family had become separated in the chaos of the attacks, the four of them had been reunited in captivity when militants hid them alongside dozens of other hostages being held at Nasser hospital in southern Gaza.

In an account that potentially backs up US and Israeli assessments that hospitals were used to shelter hostages, Aloni Cunio said there were three rooms at Nasser hospital each holding between 10 and 12 captives and that they were tended to by a male nurse every other day. “He knew who we are, he went along with it,” she said.

Hamas has been operating from within Nasser hospital very recently, so if they’ve managed to close off the tunnels they might even be able to rescue some hostages.

Official press release

Notably, the EU has sanctioned Hamas already:

9. ‘Hamas’, including ‘Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem’.

Now if only the UN would follow suit and also recognize Hamas’ terrorist status. That would force UNRWA to clean house and maybe some of the food going into Gaza might actually reach the people who need it.

Normally I’d agree with you that Daily Mail is not to be trusted, but the meetings absolutely happened:

Hamas officials join Nelson Mandela’s family at ceremony marking 10th anniversary of his death - AP

The novel information being presented in this article is exactly who was part of that delegation (and potential inclusion of PFLP representatives in that delegation)

I’m a little confused - you mean to say Palestinians in the West Bank should attack more?

Hamas and PIJ deliberately targeted civilians and committed atrocities. There is no part of those actions that can even remotely be colored as legitimate. It was attempted genocide as the intent was the destruction of all Israelis living near the border and sparking a war to end the existence of Israel.

Yes - a pile of something in the middle of the road.

The youths said it was a pile of cardboard and paper to help keep them warm. Admittedly, it was around 10°C (50°F) over the last few nights at 2am.

Israeli strikes in Lebanon are against Hezbollah fighters who are launching ATGM, mortars, or other munitions into Israel. This particular incident is exceptional in two ways:

1. This is a relatively senior ranking member who was killed (number 3 in the Radwan Force)
2. This appears to have been an attack of opportunity rather than a retaliatory strike

Reuters did a shit job on background context here. It took me 20 minutes half paying attention to a meeting that should have been an email to dig this up:

• Hezbollah has launched 565 coordinated attacks (usually barrages against multiple targets along the border) on Israeli territory resulting in 4 civilian and 12 military fatalities and many more injured.
• Due to the ongoing attacks, over 80,000 Israelis are internally displaced, and all the villages within 4km of the border have been evacuated.
• Hezbollah were required to demilitarize and disarm as a consequence of binding UN Security Council resolution 1701 from 2006.
• The Radwan force are a group within Hezbollah whose mission is to infiltrate into Israel and commit massacres against civilians.
• Hezbollah is a terrorist organization designated as such by the US, UK, Canada, EU, and many other countries.

Sounds like Mustafa Thuria was the driver, Hamza Wael Dahdouh was in the passenger seat, and Hazem Rajab, Amer Abu Amr, and Ahmed al-Bursh were in the back seat (all three of those survived).

AFP says they were filming a house that was damaged by combat, so my guess is they were using a drone to gather footage that is close enough to the drones used by Hamas that the IDF considered it a threat to troops operating nearby.

I’m still seeing the old URL - probably a federation issue (assuming you’re doing it from lemmy.ca and not lemmy.world?)

The original source of this is this tweet, which is a bit more clear than the Al Jazeera article: the WHO doesn’t know where the patients and doctors who evacuated are. Notably, this includes the teams from MSF, MAP, and IRC who have evacuated from that area.

I’d like to propose an addition to rule 1: no linking liveblogs that don’t permalink (Al Jazeera, CNN, probably others). It’s impossible to discuss an article that has been pushed three or four screens below the fold by other articles.

Al Jazeera’s live blog doesn’t do permalinking - meaning it’s impossible to link directly to the contents of the article. It makes it very difficult to discuss any story on its merits.

Thanks to @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca for updating the link to the actual article.

Alan Dershowitz isn’t representing Israel. Malcolm Shaw is.